Rose Abernathy

Game programmer & indie developer

Ratio Rancher

HTML5 (JS) with Phaser • Released May 2015 • Professional project

This cute farming game helps students gain an intuitive understanding of ratios by taking care of animals with specific needs. In my second GlassLab project, I worked closely with the designers and artists to deliver an appealing game that engages players in the math concepts. I was responsible for implementing the UI and much of the gameplay, including a dynamic feedback and level progression system which adjust to the player's performance.

Mars Generation One: Argubot Academy

Unity3D (C#) for iOS • Released July 2014 • Professional project

Argubot Academy is what you get if you cross Pokemon with the study of argumentation; students collect robots that represent types of arguments and pit them against each other in argument battles. I joined Glasslab's small development team for my first full-time job, and was responsible for implementing a many gameplay features including the battle system and NPC interactions. One of the challenges our team faced was creating the content for such a text-heavy game, so I made a web tool that our designers used to write and link together hundreds of claims, evidence, and arguments that appear in the game.

Sarah Stout Interrogations

Sarah Stout Interrogations is part of a cross-disciplinary interactive exhibit project. Visitors to the exhibit are tasked with solving the mystery of Sarah Stout, a 17th century Quaker woman whose mysterious death and subsequent court case were a controversial topic for decades afterwards. To solve the case, they must both examine the physical artifacts in the exhibit and hear the testimonies from principle characters via this interactive narrative web app.

For this project, I really enjoyed working together with contributors from various disciplines. Creating a game that would work well on all different devices was an interesting challenge - I learned that it's important to take advantage of existing resources, such as Jquery Mobile.

Club Love RPG

Club Love is a JRPG-style narrative game featuring characters from my old webcomic. The most interesting part of programming the game was creating an NPC interaction engine that allowed me to specify NPC behavior and dialogue as easily as possible.